Charlotte Snook
Charlotte Snook creates small oil paintings, rich with colour, composition and light. She combines her knowledge of art history and insight into human nature with a free-roaming imagination to create complex artworks, reworked into a personal iconography.
Her art allows for the apocalyptic nature of the world. ‘They are concerned with a loss of paradise,’ Charlotte says. Her heroes include 17th century Flemish artists Velasquez and Tiepolo, who act as starting points. Ideas are condensed into the intense small-scale arena of her paintings.
Her drawings, which can be huge, underpin her practice and show what an accomplished, knowledgeable and insightful artist she is. Dana Brass writes: ‘The work takes us to the edge and asks us to question what we see. As a viewer one looks for a safe place to rest - places to identify and name. Snook gives us a platform to jump from … but the excitement of this work is there is no place to truly land or settle.’
Charlotte trained at Hornsey School of Art and Royal College of Art where she received an MA in Painting. She lives and works from her studio in St Leonards on Sea.
Recent exhibitions include Lines & Marks: A Group Drawing Show with Natasha O’Kane Sussex Contemporary Art, and The Mystery of the Unfinished at the Rogue Gallery, St Leonards. Charlotte’s work has also been exhibited at Hastings Museum and Art Gallery, Hastings Contemporary, Axis London Milano in Milan and Bermondsey Project Space in London.
